{"id":14231,"date":"2025-01-25T17:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T16:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/?p=14231"},"modified":"2025-01-01T20:13:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T19:13:21","slug":"maira-stura-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/maira-stura-2\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Maira Stura"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nAs announced, we continued South hoping to be able to access the Maira Stura trail which was closed during our last visit in summer.
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\n1. Chapel of San Salvatore, driving up the Val Maira.
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\n2. Village of Macra, in the same valley.
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\n3. Indeed, the gate located after Pian Preit is open at this time of year. We can take the small road towards the Meja Pass.
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\n4. Cloudy weather as the road climbs steep.
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\n5. …
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\n6. The limestone is steep on this side of the valley.
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\n7. Near Meja Pass.
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\n8. We continue on the trail towards refuge Gardetta.
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\n9. Meja Mountain in the clouds.
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\n10. Altitude marshes.
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\n11. The atmosphere is magical with the fog coming in.
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\n12. Fall colors…
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\n13. Under refuge Gardetta, at almost 7,000 feet elevation.
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\n14. We do the entire crossing of the Maira Stura trail via Margherina Pass in the rain. Here, the old Barracks Della Bandia.
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\n15. We find a nice boondocking spot on the edge of a small lake.
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\n16. Rainy and windy twilight.
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\nTo be followed soon… \ud83d\ude09
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  As announced, we continued South hoping to be able to access the Maira Stura trail which was closed during our last visit in summer.   1. Chapel of San Salvatore, driving up the Val Maira.       2. Village of Macra, in the same valley.      Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1169],"tags":[1142,1168,710,1547,1807,1555,208,1172,980],"class_list":["post-14231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italy","tag-alps","tag-italy","tag-lake","tag-larch","tag-maira-stura-en","tag-meleze-en","tag-mountain","tag-trail","tag-vlv-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14232,"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14231\/revisions\/14232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}